"composer Alma Deutscher (b. 2005). Four hand-written copies of the poem are known to exist and three are in museums, including the New-York Historical Society library. The fourth copy, written out and signed by Clement Clarke Moore as a gift to a friend in 1860, was sold by one private collector to another in December 2006. It was purchased for $280,000 by an unnamed ""chief executive officer of a media company"" who resides in New York City, according to Dallas, Texas-based Heritage Auctions which brokered the private sale. Moore's connection with the poem has been questioned by Professor Donald Foster,"
"estate in what became known as the residential neighborhood of Chelsea. Before this, the urbanized part of the city ended at Houston Street on Manhattan island. For 10 years, Moore also served as a board member of the New York Institution for the Blind. He is credited and is most widely known as the author of the Christmas poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"", first published anonymously in 1823. It later became widely known as ""'Twas the Night Before Christmas"" and has been published in numerous illustrated versions in various languages. Scholars debate the identity of the author, calling on"
"provided the Troy Public Library a grant to digitize the full collection of the newspaper. https://web.archive.org/web/20121013045312/http://www.gramercycommunications.com/general/gramercy-communications-recognized-for-preserving-history-2/ http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/142.htm http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2012/07/24/news/doc500e1c962d37f124187691.txt http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2012/07/23/news/doc500cca24accca328252384.txt http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Troy-Sentinel-to-be-preserved-3728556.php http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2012/06/07/gramercy-communications-will-leave.html Troy Sentinel The Troy Sentinel was a semi-weekly newspaper published between 1823-1832, which served Rensselaer County in upstate New York. It was published in historic downtown Troy at 225 River Street. The newspaper is famously known for the first published edition of the poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"", also known as ""The Night Before Christmas"" and “Twas the Night Before Christmas,"" its first line. It was published anonymously on December 23, 1823 and is generally attributed to Clement"
"have written the poem known as ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"". Their children included: Livingston died on February 29, 1828 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Through his eldest daughter Catherine, he was the grandfather of U.S. Senator from Illinois Sidney Breese (1800–1878) and Rear Admiral Samuel Livingston Breese (1794–1870), who served in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War. Henry Livingston Jr. Henry Beekman Livingston Jr. (October 13, 1748 – February 29, 1828) has been proposed as being the uncredited author of the poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"", more popularly known (after its first line)"
"Initially it was a best-of-nine-points, sudden death tie-break which made it possible to have simultaneous match points for both players. Via a few intermediary steps this would evolve into the current best-of-twelve-point tie-break. He was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1965. He was a great fan of Clement C. Moore's famous poem ""A Visit from Saint Nicholas"" which is more commonly known as ""Twas the Night Before Christmas"". He purchased and restored the Clement C. Moore house on Catherine Street in Newport, RI and would make an annual public reading of the poem to children during the"
"author of the poem, ""The Night Before Christmas"",and French Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse, who together with General George Washington cornered and defeated British General Cornwallis in the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, thereby concluding the American Revolutionary War. De Grasse's daughter, Sylvie, married Henry Walter Livingston, ancestors of the Congressman. Livingston was married in 1965 to the former Bonnie Robichaux (also born 1943), a native of Raceland in Lafourche Parish. Bonnie's grandfather, Alcide Robichaux, served in the Louisiana State Senate, and her uncle, Philip Robichaux, was Lafourche Parish coroner for decades. Livingston's father, a Roman Catholic, and his mother,"
"history of Christmas gift-giving. Before the poem gained wide popularity, American ideas had varied considerably about Saint Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors. ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"" eventually was set to music and has been recorded by many artists. On Christmas Eve night, while his wife and children sleep, a father awakens to noises outside his house. Looking out the window, he sees Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) in an air-borne sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof, the saint enters the house through the chimney, carrying a sack of toys with him. The father watches"
"Nightmare Before Christmas"", drawing inspiration from television specials of ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"", ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" and the poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"". Burton intended to adapt the poem into a television special with the narration spoken by his favorite actor, Vincent Price, but also considered other options such as a children's book. He created concept art and storyboards for the project in collaboration with Rick Heinrichs, who also sculpted character models; Burton later showed his and Heinrichs' works-in-progress to Henry Selick, also a Disney animator at the time. After the success of ""Vincent"" in 1982, Disney"
"Old Santeclaus with Much Delight ""Old Santeclaus with Much Delight"" is an anonymous illustrated children's poem published in New York in 1821, predating by two years the first publication of ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"" (""Twas the Night before Christmas""). It is the first publication to mention (and illustrate) Santa's reindeer and sleigh, as well as being the first to describe his arrival on Christmas Eve. The accompanying illustrations are the earliest published artistic depictions of a Santa Claus figure. The poem, with eight colored lithographic illustrations, was published in New York by William B. Gilley in 1821 as a"
"Francis Augustus MacNutt Francis Augustus MacNutt (February 15, 1863 — December 30, 1927) was an Indiana-born Roman Catholic writer and an American diplomat who later became a high ranking Vatican official. MacNutt was a papal Knight of St Gregory and Papal Chamberlain to Popes Leo XIII and Pius X, the only American so appointed at the time. He was also for sometime an American diplomat and a prolific writer of plays and histories. MacNutt married Margaret Ogden, grand-daughter of Clement Moore who wrote the famous Christmas poem ""T'was the Night Before Christmas"" and they established themselves in Rome at the"
"before Christmas 1952. It has no title other than its first line, ""Do not go gentle into that good night"", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, ""Rage, rage against the dying of the light"". The poem currently remains under copyright, although the text is available online. The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines (tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as"
"write a Christmas poem, even though the latter had never showed any interest in religion, and Cappeau obliged. Soon afterwards that same year, Adolphe Adam composed the music. The song was premiered in Roquemaure in 1847 by the opera singer Emily Laurey. Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, editor of ""Dwight's Journal of Music"", translated the song into English lyrics in 1855. The song has been recorded by numerous well-known popular-music, classical-music, and religious-music singers. Some milestones include: O Holy Night ""O Holy Night"" () is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem ""Minuit,"
"widowed father, John. Their apple farm has fallen on hard times. John is temporarily being helped by his sister-in-law, Sarah. While walking home after a school Christmas pageant, Jessica witnesses a plastic reindeer fall from a Christmas decoration being hung above the main street in town. She concludes that it was Prancer from the order given in the poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"" (a.k.a. ""The Night Before Christmas""). Afraid he will be unable to provide for Jessica, John discusses a plan for Sarah to take her in to raise temporarily. She overhears this, but initially does not know the"
"folklore about elves waned, but as the phenomenon of popular culture emerged, elves were reimagined, in large part on the basis of Romantic literary depictions and associated medievalism. As American Christmas traditions crystallized in the nineteenth century, the 1823 poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"" (widely known as ""'Twas the Night before Christmas"") characterized St Nicholas himself as ""a right jolly old elf"". However, it was his little helpers, inspired partly by folktales like ""The Elves and the Shoemaker"", who became known as ""Santa's elves""; the processes through which this came about are not well understood, but one key figure"
"of Art. Sundblom is best remembered for his advertising work, specifically the Santa Claus advertisements he painted for The Coca-Cola Company in the 1930s. Sundblom's Claus firmly established the larger-than-life, grandfatherly Claus as a key figure in American Christmas imagery. So popular were Sundblom's images of Claus (Sundblom's images are used by Coca-Cola to this day) that Sundblom is often credited has having ""created"" the modern image of Santa Claus. According to the Coca-Cola company: ""For inspiration, Sundblom turned to Clement Clark Moore's 1822 poem ""A Visit From St. Nicholas"" (commonly called ""'Twas the Night Before Christmas""). Moore's description of"
"various kind. But where I found the children naughty, In manners crude, in temper haughty, Thankless to parents, liars, swearers, Boxers, or cheats, or base tale-bearers, I left a long, black, birchen rod, Such as the dread command of GOD Directs a Parent’s hand to use When virtue’s path his sons refuse. </poem> Old Santeclaus with Much Delight ""Old Santeclaus with Much Delight"" is an anonymous illustrated children's poem published in New York in 1821, predating by two years the first publication of ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"" (""Twas the Night before Christmas""). It is the first publication to mention"
"for whom he had originally written the piece. Moore's conception of Saint Nicholas was borrowed from his friend Washington Irving, but Moore portrayed his ""jolly old elf"" as arriving on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day. At the time that Moore wrote the poem, Christmas Day was overtaking New Year's Day as the preferred genteel family holiday of the season, but some Protestants viewed Christmas as the result of ""Catholic ignorance and deception"" and still had reservations. By having Saint Nicholas arrive the night before, Moore ""deftly shifted the focus away from Christmas Day with its still-problematic religious associations."" As"
"(2016), and Judy Gold (2017). Moore's poem was selected partly due to the nominal connection between the author's home and the orchestra that would debut the musical work. ""'Twas the Night Before Christmas"" was penned in 1822 on Moore's country estate—named ""Chelsea""—which eventually became the Manhattan district Chelsea, which, in turn, provided the name for The Chelsea Symphony. Dai's ""The Night Before Christmas"" premiered less than two blocks from the site of the original poem's writing. ""The Night Before Christmas"" is scored for a narrator and an orchestra, including: The Night Before Christmas (Dai) The Night Before Christmas is an"
"The Night Before Christmas (1961 film) The Night Before Christmas, also known as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (), is a 1961 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou, based on a collection of short stories, ""Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"", by Nikolai Gogol. This eccentric and fantastical fairy tale takes place near the village of Dikanka on the night before Christmas. Amid carol singing, drunken revelry, and amorous hijinks, the blacksmith Vakula persuades the Devil to fly him to Sankt-Petersburg, where he hopes to obtain a pair of the Empress's slippers which might win him Oksana's love."
"The Night Before Christmas (1961 film) The Night Before Christmas, also known as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (), is a 1961 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou, based on a collection of short stories, ""Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"", by Nikolai Gogol. This eccentric and fantastical fairy tale takes place near the village of Dikanka on the night before Christmas. Amid carol singing, drunken revelry, and amorous hijinks, the blacksmith Vakula persuades the Devil to fly him to Sankt-Petersburg, where he hopes to obtain a pair of the Empress's slippers which might win him Oksana's love."
"promising baby asleep in a cradle"". The figure of Santa Claus had originated in the US, drawing at least partly upon Dutch St Nicolas traditions. A New York publication of 1821, ""A New-Year’s Present"", contained an illustrated poem ""Old Santeclaus with Much Delight"" in which a Santa figure on a reindeer sleigh brings presents for good children and a ""long, black birchen rod"" for use on the bad ones. In 1823 came the famous poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"", usually attributed to the New York writer Clement Clarke Moore, which developed the character further. Moore's poem became immensely popular"
"Tomtarnas julnatt Tomtarnas julnatt, also known as Midnatt råder or Tipp tapp, is a Christmas song with lyrics by Alfred Smedberg (under the pseudonyme ""Tippu Tipp""), and music by Vilhelm Sefve-Svensson (under the pseudonym ""Vilh. Sefve""). The song was originally published in the children’s magazine ""Jultomten"" in 1898, and has then been re-published several times. In 1916 it was published in ""115 sånger för de små""., According to song researcher Lennart Kjellgren the crediting of Sefve for the music is uncertain (1999). The song has eight verses, and describes the Christmas elves the evening before Christmas. Originally the opening lines"
"O Holy Night ""O Holy Night"" () is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem ""Minuit, chrétiens"" (Midnight, Christians) written by wine merchant and poet Placide Cappeau (1808–1877). In both the French original and the English version of the carol, as well as in many other languages, the text reflects on the birth of Jesus and on humanity's redemption. In Roquemaure at the end of 1843, the church organ had recently been renovated. To celebrate the event, the parish priest asked wine merchant and poet Placide Cappeau, a native of the town, to"
"goes back to the earlier Welsh and may originate from medieval ballads. The lyrics run as follows: The phrase ""'Tis the season"", from the lyrics, has become synonymous with the Christmas and holiday season. 'tis being an archaic contraction of ""it is"". A similar archaic contraction is ""'Twas the night before Christmas"", from the first line of the poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"". In the original 1862 publication, Oliphant's English lyrics were published alongside Talhaiarn's Welsh lyrics. Although some early sources state that Oliphant's words were a ""translation"" of Talhaiarn's Welsh original, this is not the case in any"
"A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ""A Christmas Carol"" recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote ""A Christmas Carol"" during a period when the British were"
"raised arguments challenging whether the person traditionally identified as the author of a text was correct. He has pointed to an obscure Beat writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, which some had previously speculated to be the work of Thomas Pynchon. Foster also joined a long-running effort by descendants of Henry Livingston Jr. to show that their ancestor, and not Clement Clarke Moore, wrote the famous poem ""A Visit from St. Nicholas"". Foster provided his account of sleuthing out these and other identifications in his book ""Author Unknown"" (including the Shakespeare-""Elegy"" connection, which he still"
"""St Nicholas"". His work includes the children’s nonsense poem “The Walloping Window Blind”, published in 1885, in a verse style similar to Lewis Carroll’s: ""A capital ship for an ocean trip/Was the Walloping Window-Blind;/No wind that blew dismayed her crew/Or troubled the captain’s mind."" A second novel, ""The Admiral's Caravan"", also serialized in ""St Nicholas"" beginning in December 1891, was dedicated to his daughter Constance. His poem ""The Walloping Window Blind"" can be sung to the same tune as ""Ten Thousand Miles Away"", using the same refrain (or with minor changes). It has been variously named ""Capital Ship"", ""Blow, Ye"
"growing desire by parents to keep children at home, away from the ""corrupting"" influence of the urban streets. Another relatively recent change concerned the time of Christmas gift-giving. For many centuries, gift-giving took place on December 6 around Saint Nicholas Day or in early January after New Year's Eve. The popularity of this custom grew after the positive reception of the 1823 poem ""The Night Before Christmas"" and the 1843 novella ""A Christmas Carol"". By the end of the 19th century, Christmas Eve replaced early December or January dates as the most common date for gift-giving in the Western culture."
"Christmas Eve (Gogol) ""Christmas Eve"" (, ""Noch pered Rozhdestvom"", which literally translates as ""The Night Before Christmas"") is the first story in the second volume of the collection ""Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"" by Nikolai Gogol. The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people"
"""breast"" in ""The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow"" is frequently bowdlerized to ""crest""; the archaic ""ere"" in ""But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight"" is frequently replaced with ""as"". This change implies that Santa Claus made his exclamation during the moment that he disappeared from view, while the exclamation came before his disappearance in the original. ""Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"" is frequently rendered with the traditional English locution ""Merry Christmas"". The poem has been set to music by composer Ken Darby (1909 – 1992), and by British child"
"line: ""Twas the Night Before Christmas""). The poem helped popularize the tradition of exchanging gifts, and seasonal Christmas shopping began to assume economic importance. This also started the cultural conflict between the holiday's spiritual significance and its associated commercialism that some see as corrupting the holiday. In her 1850 book ""The First Christmas in New England"", Harriet Beecher Stowe includes a character who complains that the true meaning of Christmas was lost in a shopping spree. While the celebration of Christmas was not yet customary in some regions in the U.S., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow detected ""a transition state about Christmas"
"Christmas Lullaby Christmas Lullaby is a popular sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a lullaby for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning ""Clear in the darkness"", three stanzas with the refrain ""Ave Maria"". Rutter scored the piece for four vocal parts (SATB) and piano, adding other versions. He composed it on a 1989 commission from The Bach Choir for the celebration of the 70th birthday of their conductor David Willcocks. It was first performed at the choir's Christmas concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, an event that Rutter knew from being a member of the audience as"
"Sylvian Joululaulu Sylvian Joululaulu (Swedish: ""Sylvias hälsning från Sicilien""), ""Sylvia's Christmas Song"", is a poem by Zachris Topelius from 1853, which was composed to a christmas carol by Karl Collan. The poem has been translated to Finnish by both Elina Vaara and Martti Korpilahti, and the latter one from 1918 is one of the most beloved Finnish christmas carols. It has been chosen as the best Finnish christmas carol in the 1960s and again in 2002 in a poll by Yleisradio. The poem is a part of the collection ""Sylvian laulut"": Sylvia, or Eurasian blackcap, (""Sylvia atricapilla""), is a migratory"